Myxophaga

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Myxophaga
Superfamiliae (2): Lepiceroidea – Sphaeriusoidea

Familiae overview (4 + 1†): Hydroscaphidae – Lepiceridae – Sphaeriusidae – Torridincolidae – †Triamyxidae

Unplaced genera: †Leehermania

Name

Myxophaga Crowson, 1955

References

Additional references

Anton, E.; Beutel, R.G. 2006: On the head morphology of Lepiceridae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga) and the systematic position of the family and suborder. European journal of entomology, 103: 85–95. PDF
Arce Pérez, R. 1997. Sinopsis del suborden Myxophaga (Coleoptera) de México. Dugesiana 4(2): 41–50. DOI: 10.32870/dugesiana.v4i2.7194 [nonfunctional] . PDF. [in Spanish, with English abstract] Reference page.
Beutel, R.G. 1999: Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) with a redescription of Lepicerus horni (Lepiceridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 237: 291–308.
Beutel, R.G. 2005: 6. Myxophaga Crowson, 1955. Introduction, phylogeny. Pp. 43-44 in: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110904550.43
Beutel, R.G.; Maddison, D.R.; Haas, A. 1999: Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) using larval characters. Systematic entomology, 24: 171–192.
Bouchard, P. & Bousquet, Y. 2020. Additions and corrections to “Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)”. ZooKeys 922: 65–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.922.46367 . Reference page.
Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page.
Hinton, H.E. 1967. On the spiracles of the larvae of the suborder Myxophaga (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15(5): 955–959. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9670955 Reference page.
Keller, O., Schnepp, K.E., Ashman, K.L., Turnbow, R.H. & Skelley, P.E. 2020. An annotated catalog of the type material of Adephaga and Myxophaga (Coleoptera) deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville, Florida, United States of America. Zootaxa 4744(1): 1–118. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4744.1.1. . Abstract. Reference page.
Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Poinar, G., Jr. 2006. Haplochelidae, a new family of Cretaceous beetles (Coleoptera: Myxophaga) from Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(1): 155–164. BHL. Reference page.
Lawrence, J.F., Weir, T.A. & Pyke, J.E. 1987. Archostemata and Myxophaga. Pp. 6–16. In: Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. ISBN 978-06-44-04896-5. DOI: 10.1163/9789004626638 . Reference page.
Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1 ed. I. Löbl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2003 and 2004, p.25 ISBN 87-88757-73-0
Qvarnström, M., Fikáček, M., Wernström, J.V., Huld, S., Beutel, R.G., Arriaga-Varela, E., Ahlberg, P.E. & Niedźwiedzki, G. 2021. Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin. Current Biology 31(15): 3374–3381.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.015 . Reference page.
Reichardt, H. 1973: A critical study of the suborder Myxophaga, with a taxonomic revision of the Brazilian Torridincolidae and Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera). Arquivos de zoologia, 24(2): 73–162. full text and pdf
van Vondel, B.J., Ostovan, H. & Ghahari, H. 2017. An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4216(3): 225–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.3.2 Reference page.

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
Tree of Life Web Project. 2007. Myxophaga. Version 07 August 2007 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
Atlas of beetles of Russia (a project dedicated to the 100th anniversary of G.G. Jacobson's book "Beetles of Russia")

Vernacular names

беларуская: Міксафага
čeština: řasožraví
English: myxophagans
suomi: Rihmansyöjät
日本語: ツブミズムシ亜目 (粘食亜目)
русский: Миксофага
svenska: Svampätarbaggar
中文: 藻食亚目